The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-16
SOUTHERN eLEANINGs.

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children, grandchildren and great grand.
children.
A colored man named Martin fell from
the new capitol building in Atlanta, Ga,
a few days ago, distance of seventy five
feet and was instantly killed.
Joseph Landrum and Elijah Raleigh,
wealthy farmers Of Jefferson County,
| KY, met few nights ago at Jefferson
town and renewed an old quarrel. Lam
| drum attacked Raleigh with knife, cut
| ting him severely. The men were sepa-
rated and started for their respective
homes, Raleigh in a wagon and Laudrum
on horse back Landrum rode ahead, and
securing rife, returned and shot Raleigh
in the abdomen, inflcting probable fatal
| wound.
William L. Gracey, prominent citizen
Of Sparta, Tenn, committed suicide few
days since, shooting himself with
double barreled shotgun. He placed the
weapon on the ground, and with stick
| touched the trigger, the load entering the
stomach. Gracey died almost instantly.
He was ffty-i years old and leaves
| eleven children. Financial embarrass;
ment caused the deed.
The cotton crop reports for the Memphis
district are in the main quite favorable,
| though some complaints come from Ar
kansas Of too much rain.
Hawkins Carley, deputy county treas
urer Of Logan County, Ark, is under ar
rest for robbing the safe of the Logan
County treasury in February last. Hiram
and JEFF Fort and Henry Nichols, of Paris,
Logan County, are implicated.
William Aimison, Of Nashville, Tenn,
was reelected president of the Inter-
national Typographical Union.
At Bartlett, Tenn, a few days since,
ten-year-old colored boy named Richard
Smith deliberately blew out the brains of
an eleven months-old baby, because its
| parents, with whom he had been living,
| had severely fogged him the day before.
jeff. Miner, an ex-convict, residing at
Luther, Tenn, having attacked Thomas
Greene, was stabbed twenty times and
shot through the head. Miner died and
| Greene surrendered to the authorities.
| In Fayette County, Ga, the five sons Of
| Widower Hamber married the five
daughters of Widow Starnes. To com.
| plete the family union, the boys mother
in-law was joined in wedlock to their
wives father -in-law.
William McElroy, colored, was riding a
mule at Lebanon, KY, the other day,
when the animal SHE'D and threw him.
His feet became entangled, and the mule
dragged him a considerable distance. He
was horribly mutilated, and died in few
minutes.
Price Peck, colored, who shot and killed
| Otto Board, white boy, in Nashville,
Tenn, last Christmas, has been convicted
| of murder in the second degree, and given
| ten years. Imprisonment.
John Woody, one Of the posse who re-
Gently raided the Bates homestead, in
| Polk County, Tenn, and killed Avery
| Bates, was waylaid and fatally shot few
| nights ago, near the Bates place. He
was walking along the highway return
ing from mill, and is supposed to have
been shot by one of the friends of Bates.
| DIR. Merino and other Cuban physicians
! who are familiar with the symptoms,
| deny that the disease prevalent at Key
| West is genuine yellow fever, and assert
/ that it is merely a malignant acchmating
! fever.
! Secretary Lindsey of the Tennessee
! State Board of Health has received an
official report from Health Officer Blan-
kenship of Maryville, Blount County,
concerning the epidemic of dysentery at
that place. Since the outbreak there had
been twenty cases and seven deaths
in Maryville and the surrounding coun-
/ try.
tanooga a few days ago in the two-story
brick building at the corner of Fourth and
Market, and spread with great rapidity to
the grocery store of j. Moering and the
Morgan House, a three-story frame struct.
ure. The occupants barely escaped with
their lives.
Albert a. Hoefflln, treasurer of the To-
cal assembly of the International Cigar
Makers Union at Louisville, KY, was ar
rested few days ago owing to his failure
to make good a shortage of 81, 400. He had
: been given two weeks to make up his
deficiency, and could only raise S3)0 He
was released on a bond of s. 900. Hoeff n
is a member of one of the best German
families in the city.
/ The Supreme Court of Tennessee, after
two months session, adjourned few
days ago after having disposed of $40
; cases. Every case on the West Tennes.
| see docket has been dispos ed of for the
first time in twenty-five years. Every
body Is loud il praise of the present
! Supreme Bench.
Great excitement was caused at Hen
| derson, KY, a few days ago, by the
shooting of Prof E. s. Clark, Superin-
! tendent of Public Schools, by Prof.
| Thos Posey, principal of the High school.
| Bad feeling has existed for some time be-
| tween the parties, owing, it is said, to the
/ fact that Prof. Clark had used his infiu-
! ence to prevent the re election of Prof.
| Posey.
| Joe Mckinley, Cicero Evans and John
Helton live on adjoining farms near Ma
/ gan, Ohio County, KY. They are all
young married men and hard-workiug
farmers, but their latest crop beats any
ever before harvested by them. Mrs. Nc
Kinley a few days ago gave birth to trip
lets, all girls. The day following Mrs.
! Evans presented her lord with twins, and
The next day Mrs. Helton added two more
boys to the local population.
Dr. Matthews, a colored hoodoo doctor,
was sentenced at Chattanooga, Tenn, a
few days ago, to three years'im pisonment
for obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. man named Holland was arrest
! ed and put in Jail The hoodoo doctor went
to Hollands wife and told her he could
hoodoo her usband out of jail for ten dol
| lors. She paid the money, and when Mat
| thews fed the fraud was discovered.
! Paul Llncke, a prominent farmer of
Beaufort County, N c., was shot dead
! while asleep in bed few days ago. The
( shooting was done by a prominent
! young lawyer named VIM. A. Potts. The
I latter has made a full confession of the
crime, but will not say why he killed
| Lincke.
Key West Is quarantined.
The City Council of Charleston, s. c.,
! has presented to the earthquake commit
the seal of the city and the palmetto
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